Jill loved watching the exercize rides at Woodbine, early early in the fog of morning. After riding Stoney, she could really, finally feel how some horses are just B R E D to run. And, she came to think that maybe racing is not as totally horrible to the horse in ALL aspects as she'd previously thought...
*
Albert and Victoria? She didn't know what his facebook status meant... but she wished he was closer by. She couldn't stop hoping for some kind of date for New Years!
2010-12-17
2010-12-07
Resignation
Jill loved train travel and would rather spend time that way than waiting for a plane!
His facebook updates kept making her swoon - she found many of them, posted in France, soooo romantic. But then other babes would click the "like" button and Jill would chastise herself for the weird, distant obsession that actually seemed to be preventing her from some kind of REAL romantic attachment, argh.
*
Jill was one for always trying to find the upside. She enjoyed the fact that holiday celebration dates in her family were flexible, due to her father's Alzhiemers. If business plans or boyfriend family conflicts made complications, they just celebrated in her family on another day. Often Mondays a week or two later! Convenient?
*
Have I ever thanked you for being such a great coach and mentor me me?
*
"Dear Boss,
Due to conflicting priorities at the moment and the ongoing tension I find the other instructor creating around my horse activities, I have decided to find alternative outlets. I am certain this will alleviate any concerns about how your business is represented in the market for you as well…
It is my hope that I will still be welcome as a guest, especially your daughter's.
Thanks for letting me participate here for as long as I did,
Respectfully,
Jill.
"Do YOU have horses?" the lady in the tack shop booth at the Royal Winter Fair show asked Jill back.
"Not right now" she sighed. "I'm kinda here looking for someone else's horse to ride. and you know how THAT goes."
The vendor stared back at Jill with a completely blank look on her face, so she moved on...
*
"Do YOU have horses?" the lady in the tack shop booth at the Royal Winter Fair show asked Jill back.
"Not right now" she sighed. "I'm kinda here looking for someone else's horse to ride. and you know how THAT goes."
The vendor stared back at Jill with a completely blank look on her face, so she moved on...
*
After being without an income for a long time, Jill had got at job at minimum wage and to $14/hr and then to $16hr in six short months. But she never should have happily mentioned to the mechanic about getting her third raise in short order, because he went ahead and did $700 work on the car without checking with her first. What about the plan to put it up on the hoist and TELL HER WHAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH? She had said she needed his advice in order to make important decisions. In the past he had always provided an estimate and info to consider first. This was a big bill at a time when she was considering pulling the $100 month insurance off the gas buzzer of a luxury car she couldn't afford to drive, in order to reduce her debt load and cash flow. And here the mechanic threw in an oil change she didn't need without ever finding out about a few of the other car trouble issues she'd wanted him to look at fixing.
And while she on the phone with the mechanic getting this news, her boss walked off in front of her with her lunch, as well as his to eat.
But none of that was any excuse for forgetting to call her dad on his actual birthday. Jill felt bad.
*
"Are you riding?"" he asked, honouring her with his sort of foolish assumption about her role at the big exhibition. She wrote in her journal later that she was back to having a crush on him...
She loved her friend's profile pic of the high top sneakers strewn on the sandy beach. And felt asleep wondering, does driver position matter in the marking?
2010-12-01
Tis The Season
She would come dressed to ride.
*
Jill loved the boxing day jam tradition she had stumbled into, and someday she hoped to host such an animal. With a real tree in the house... why not anyway.
*
Jill was glad to be horse-story swapping at the Gymkana. "So anyway, about this perfect place in Caledon to go get a tree: the very first time Stoney ever took off on me, was the very first day I invited a whole bunch of barn kids out on a hack with me." Jill went on, as usual, with barely a breath. "I had been hacking on him on the roads myself at that point, and he was going well or i wouldn't have been in that situation... I guess it must have been one of the younger riders that knew we were allowed to ride in that big open field? Because we were out on my hack turf, with the brave, sensible Stoney leading the way and we decided to make the turn. And as soon as I turned him into it, he bolted. He just took off, full speed, with no warning he started running."
Jill had been riding all her life, so to hear her first ever total take off story took place as an adult, was a shock. But not compared to the horror that showed on her face as she described it. "I have to say. that was the fastest I have ever travelled on horseback in all my life! And so, there we went, whipping past trees and who knows what stumps and holes at full tilt and the kids are whooping and hollering like this is fun as their herd of horses do their best to keep up somehow with the racehorse., Jill described shouting back to them STOP!!! I AM OUT OF CONTROL!!! STOP!!! which, incidentally, does not sound like whoa. to a racehorse.ha
Jess, who had a lazy horse it was hard to make gallop caught on first, and since she had been second in the ride she was quick in cutting things off and bringing the others to order. Jill said "I do not know how far away Stoney was when I could finally stop him. but I shook and shook and maybe even cried on the long, long walk to return to the herd. She did not begin to try and count the stumps walk way back to the kids, who were standing there in a group worrying.
What a horrible surprise yet ultimately lucky run, ha. At first Jill had said "I never want to gallop ever again in my whole life. especially on THIS horse."
***
But there's a more fun thing about that Christmas tree farm:
The family tradion when as Jill was growing up was always an artificial tree, because of the pets. But, one time, when parents surprised her.
It would turn out that as they were driving home with their first ever real tree, from that very farm, they passed a very flashy horse and rider on the roads. They discussed the beauty and visible talent of the horse and the wonderful connection he seemed to have with the rider. Jill's dad reported that he had always wished to get Jill a horse just like that...
Meanwhile, Jill would remember that the very considerate driver passing safely had a car that looked like her parents' , (but obviously, it wasn't them since there was an actual real tree tied to the roof) that indeed that her mount was sort of spooking at, so Jill rode on and they drove off and it was only chatting on the phone later they figgered out we had in fact seen each other day!
*
Jill loved the boxing day jam tradition she had stumbled into, and someday she hoped to host such an animal. With a real tree in the house... why not anyway.
*
Jill was glad to be horse-story swapping at the Gymkana. "So anyway, about this perfect place in Caledon to go get a tree: the very first time Stoney ever took off on me, was the very first day I invited a whole bunch of barn kids out on a hack with me." Jill went on, as usual, with barely a breath. "I had been hacking on him on the roads myself at that point, and he was going well or i wouldn't have been in that situation... I guess it must have been one of the younger riders that knew we were allowed to ride in that big open field? Because we were out on my hack turf, with the brave, sensible Stoney leading the way and we decided to make the turn. And as soon as I turned him into it, he bolted. He just took off, full speed, with no warning he started running."
Jill had been riding all her life, so to hear her first ever total take off story took place as an adult, was a shock. But not compared to the horror that showed on her face as she described it. "I have to say. that was the fastest I have ever travelled on horseback in all my life! And so, there we went, whipping past trees and who knows what stumps and holes at full tilt and the kids are whooping and hollering like this is fun as their herd of horses do their best to keep up somehow with the racehorse., Jill described shouting back to them STOP!!! I AM OUT OF CONTROL!!! STOP!!! which, incidentally, does not sound like whoa. to a racehorse.ha
Jess, who had a lazy horse it was hard to make gallop caught on first, and since she had been second in the ride she was quick in cutting things off and bringing the others to order. Jill said "I do not know how far away Stoney was when I could finally stop him. but I shook and shook and maybe even cried on the long, long walk to return to the herd. She did not begin to try and count the stumps walk way back to the kids, who were standing there in a group worrying.
What a horrible surprise yet ultimately lucky run, ha. At first Jill had said "I never want to gallop ever again in my whole life. especially on THIS horse."
***
But there's a more fun thing about that Christmas tree farm:
The family tradion when as Jill was growing up was always an artificial tree, because of the pets. But, one time, when parents surprised her.
It would turn out that as they were driving home with their first ever real tree, from that very farm, they passed a very flashy horse and rider on the roads. They discussed the beauty and visible talent of the horse and the wonderful connection he seemed to have with the rider. Jill's dad reported that he had always wished to get Jill a horse just like that...
Meanwhile, Jill would remember that the very considerate driver passing safely had a car that looked like her parents' , (but obviously, it wasn't them since there was an actual real tree tied to the roof) that indeed that her mount was sort of spooking at, so Jill rode on and they drove off and it was only chatting on the phone later they figgered out we had in fact seen each other day!
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